Something rotten
A succession of scandals has created a profound mistrust in our political and media class.
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Tabloid Nation
Letter of the week: Speaking clearly
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Local Conservative clubs are still clamouring for reckless right-wingers
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Mark Rutte’s next move
Following a bitter dispute about asylum seekers, the 13-year premiership of “Teflon Mark” has finally ended.
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Why the EU has out-Trumped Trump
Europe has proved far more adept at building walls than the former US president was.
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David Edgerton: “The UK needs a politics of modesty”
The acclaimed historian on whether Britain is in decline, the Nairn-Anderson thesis and what Labour gets wrong about economic…
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Why the EU cannot admit Ukraine as a member
Until the European Union undergoes deep structural change, the door will remain shut.
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How Gen Z can save the Conservative Party
There are young thinkers that long for a party to assert cultural conservatism, and not just manage national decline.
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“Take back control” has become “we can’t control”
The implication of Labour’s focus on “resilience” is that modern subjects are weak, inflexible and unable to cope.
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Goodreads is degrading our literary culture
Everyone can, and should, be a critic. But the reviews website is having a sinister effect on books.
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The decadent society
With the nation consumed by sleaze, the serious business of government is at a standstill.
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Pedro Sánchez’s election battle will pre-empt Europe’s future
As Spain heads to the polls, the country’s fractured politics offer a glimpse of what’s to come.
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Simone Weil’s great awakening
How the French activist and thinker forged a radical new philosophy for an age of war and ideological conflict.
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Why do you love capitalism?
Johan Norberg’s The Capitalist Manifesto is a feeble defence of a system under attack.
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The NS Poem: Heliopause
A new poem by Maryann Corbett.
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From Megan Nolan to James Ball: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Reflections by Mark Avery and The Black Eden by Richard T Kelly.
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Has Caitlin Moran ever met a man?
Her new book What About Men? promises an anatomy of the male condition – but instead provides flagrant stereotypes…
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The monsters of feminist art
How the audacious artists of the Seventies embraced disgust and redefined female beauty.
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A world built on sand
Ed Conway’s Material World shows that despite our digital lives it is rocks and minerals that power the global…
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Band on the rise: Paul McCartney’s candid Sixties photographs
The National Portrait Gallery exhibition of “forgotten” pictures will be revelatory for Beatles obsessives.
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The inventions of Norman Foster
From museums and airports to bridges and a pissoir, for 60 years the architect has left his stamp on…
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The striking works of the Prix Pictet shortlist
From Siân Davey to Gauri Gill, the photographers competing for the prestigious award are deeply impressive.
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Mission Intolerable: a stupid franchise gets stupider
Reviewing the Tom Cruise film Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is an exercise as absurd as critiquing…
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And Just Like That… is a woke horror show
The Sex and the City sequel is a combination of glib identity politics and extreme shopping – and it’s…
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Why Wimbledon is made for radio
I thought I had to see tennis to believe it – but BBC Radio 5 Live’s commentary has transported…
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The right don’t own tradition, but they can keep Morris dancing
How do we connect with the past when this impulse is often exploited by the worst people imaginable?
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I turn 60 and my children tease me – until they are reminded that they, too, are ageing
I may have a grey beard, but the wingèd chariot dawdles no more for them than it does for…
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This England: Duck and dive
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain…
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David Scheel Q&A: “I studied octopuses from a yellow submarine”
The marine biologist on the Beatles, eliminating single-use plastic, and animal self-awareness.
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